The number of things you can hold in your mind at once has been traced to one penny-sized part of the brain.

The finding surprises researchers who assumed this aspect of our intelligence would be distributed over many parts of the brain. Instead, the area appears to form a bottleneck that might limit our cognitive abilities, researchers say.

"This is a striking discovery," says John Duncan, an intelligence researcher at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK.

Most people can hold three or four things in their minds at once when given a quick glimpse of an image such as a collection of coloured dots, or lines in different orientations. If shown a similar image a second later, they will be able to recognise whether three or four of these spots and lines are identical to the first set or not.

But some people can only catch one or two things in a glance, while others can capture up to five.

When people develop a super-memory (more than mean 2-7 bits) on their own or in coursework, are they building on the penny sized area of the brain for all of the working memory calculation, or both visual and working memory, or more than these two areas for the main functioning of bit memorization? (the car picture has a red hue, two headlights one of which is broken, a blue front license plate, the wipers are adjusted to the left, the bumper is chrome, the sun is shining to the right in the photo, the front right tire is flat, the pavement on which it sits is black, the front seat is beige, etc.)

It also gives new meaning to the phrase, "putting in your two cents
worth"...

Strange, but then they concentrated on only one memory-aspect, a defined object (temporal lobe) colocated within the spatial aspect, which is the lower parietal lobe/upper temporal lobe and visual cue, which is located in the visual cortex. So it's not strange that they found ONE kind of working memory. But throw in things like sound, taste and other things, and you'll see them struggle.

Memory cannot be located at ONE point alone, it is a NETWORK of various interconnected memories (visual, audial, gastrial, nasal cues). These fools think they've found something. Haven't they studied neural science long enough to understand some basic concepts?